Darlinghurst Courthouse
The New South Wales Enabling Act &
The New South Wales Court Act 1787
& the CHARTER OF JUSTICE, 2nd April 1787
Were Both Enacted On The 7th February 1788,
After Arthur Phillips Instructions From King George III
Had Been Read Aloud And Enabled By John Collins, Judge Advocate Of The New Colony.
On The 11th February 2 Convicts Were Convicted Of Stealing, One Was Sentanced To 150 Lashes With The Cat-O-Nine-Tails, & The Other To Be Marooned On Pinchgut Island (Now Called Fort Denison) In The Middle Of Sydney Harbour To Starve To Death.
The first civil action is brought by convicts against the captain of the transport, whom they accused of stealing belongings they had given him for safe keeping. He was found guilty.
In September 1795, during Governor hunters term, there was another strange civil case. Two soldiers of the New South Wales for the suit for £500 damages for a £20 each.
The courts shuffled from one place to another until Greenways building on King Street, the first Supreme Court, was ready.
The courts were shuffled from one place to another until greenways building on King Street, the first Supreme Court, was ready.
Meddling commissioner Bigge had forced Greenway to turn his original courthouse into St James church.
Satisfied with the makeshift he then had to create alongside the church to service port. The building, until 1828, handed civil and criminal cases until the new criminal court was built at Darlinghurst 14 years later.
Commission a big head for screen way to turn his original courthouse into St James church. Every little architect was deeply dissatisfied with the makeshift you don’t have to create alongside the church to service courts. The building, not opened until 1828, handled civil and criminal cases until the new criminal court was built at Darlinghurst 14 years later
The building was designed by multiple ideas, which was one wonderful well. But the time is regarded as a/inspiration to go to Newport house hard up against the back of Darlinghurst jail. This arrangement would obviate the lamentable exhibition of prisoners creating through the town to the courthouse for trials and risk their escape
